Dolorès LING (1932-1999)

Lot 21 - Dolorès LING (1932-1999)
Untitled
Oil on canvas, signed lower left.
Beautiful natural solid oak frame
20th century
Dimensions when viewed: H: 31; W: 51.5 cm
Dolorés Ling was born in Vienna in 1932, to a Chinese father and an Austrian mother. From childhood, Ling lived in a world where art was present. From an early age, she studied classical dance at the Vienna Opera School. At the same time, she continued her musical and theatrical training.
Thanks to the influence of her parents, she studied language and art history at the University of Vienna, and Far Eastern art history at the University of Hamburg. In America, she studied lithography at the School of Art Institute in Chicago and other printmaking techniques at Loyola University.
Extended stays in Germany, Eastern Europe and the United States enriched her artistic experience.
From these mixed influences of the Far East and the West, dance and Chinese calligraphy, Ling has developed a gestural, lyrical painting that is as much abstract as it is figurative.
Based on a symbolism inspired by Asian philosophies, her painting is a sign, a bridge between the symbolic language of Asia and representative pictorial art.